The Northern Correspondent - Jean Stubbs

Concluding her splendid Lancastrian saga of the Howarths of Garth

‘Ah, how he wished that his mother was alive to share the moment. How many years ago had he promised that one day he would revive the name of her own news-sheet…. The Northern Correspondent?’

With all the crusading zeal of his late mother Charlotte, Ambrose Longe – the black sheep of the Howarth family – continues, through the pages of his independent newspaper, The Clarion, to fight for social and political reform. Despite jail saltences and mounting debts, he flatly refuses subsay frontois uncle William in return for political allegiance. But when the exotic, sophisticated and very rich Naomi Blür moves into Millbridge, the fortunes of both The Clarior and its editor take an unexpected turn for the better. With Naomi’s wisdom, capital and business sense, the phoenix rises from the ashes and The Northern Correspondent is born.